Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
The moral lay, to beauty due, I write, FAIR EXCELLENCE, to you; Well pleas'd to hope my vacant hours Have been employ'd to sweeten your's. Truth under fiction I impart, To weed out folly from the heart, And shew the paths that lead astray The wand'ring nymph from wisdom's way.
By nature's author thus declar'd The woman's sov'reign and her guard: Shall man, by treach'rous wiles invade The weakness he was meant to aid? While beauty, given to inspire Pro...
1. Part 1The moral lay, to beauty due, I write, FAIR EXCELLENCE, to you; Well pleas'd to hope my vacant hours Have been employ'd to sweeten your's. Truth under fiction I impart, To weed...
3. Part 3"Kind sir," reply'd our MATRON chaste, "Your zeal seems pretty much in haste; I own the fondness to be blest, Is a deep thirst in every breast; Of blessings too I have my store,...
4. Part 4As when with slumb'rous weight opprest, Some wealthy miser sinks to rest, Where felons eye the glitt'ring prey, And steal his hoard of joys away: He, borne where golden INDUS st...